Just for the record the Blessed Sacrament isn’t something that you order à la cart. The 10 Commandments are not on the “pick three menu”, And Jesus didn’t say…
“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love…sometimes”
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, our faith is the easiest to follow and the most difficult to practice. Now I say practice because none of us are perfect, perfection happened once, and when He was here Christ taught us to love everyone. Forgive everyone. And as difficult as that may be at times it doesn’t mean we don’t strive for it everyday. We have to learn to “unlearn” what society taught us, and focus on what Jesus teaches us.
I was in the car the other morning thinking about a conversation I had been in a few days earlier. There was a few of us talking about acceptance. Let’s be real here, it probably wasn’t more than a week after Adam and Eve were banished from Eden before they started looking at some people sideways! Ok I know I’m being a bit dramatic but you understand my point. We all build up these preconceived notions over the course of our lives about how we view the world and the people in it whether we want to admit it or not. So at one point in the conversation I stopped talking and just sat back and listened. Initially, my silence was to try and really learn how everyone else’s thought process steered their viewpoints, but as the conversation went on I started to have this “conversation” in my head. What struck me was when someone had made the comment about how “we’re all made in God’s image”. Now I absolutely agree with that, but does everyone? I will tell you I didn’t always think like that. But if you truly believe that, then how can you justify not treating everyone with love and forgiveness?
Which brings me to the picture at the top of this letter. As I said earlier I was driving trying to formulate these thoughts into some form of order I looked up and saw the car in front of me. Immediately I laughed and thought to myself this guys got a real “halfway attitude”. And as ridiculous as he looked it was such a great visual to the point I’m making. I mean how many of us have a “halfway attitude” when it comes to practicing our faith? Like the guy who cleared off the bare minimum of his car to travel, don’t we sometimes do the same spiritually? But the reality is halfway is not enough. Not enough when you’re driving and absolutely not enough when you’re living your life for Christ.
As always know that I am praying for you, and remember to live the Faith. God bless.
Faith like Water 